I wanted to spend the day writing, but I’ve instead spent the last four hours in deep frustration while trying to set up social accounts and improve my SEO. Priorities, I guess.
I’m posting this, admittedly, partly because I’m cleaning excess plugins off this blog, which is much heavier than it has a right to be, and I want to test if my Open Graph and Twitter Cards are still functioning correctly after I’ve tossed out huge chunks of code.
I’ve set up an account with Mailchimp, which often gets recommended for both author and business promotions, but after going to all that trouble, it appears that Mailchimp’s only method of plugging into the blog is to create a popup window that appears over the content while you’re trying to read, and there’s no way in hell I’m being that annoying on purpose. So for now, email subscriptions are still through the default widget in the right sidebar, which claims—to my shock—that I have over 1,600 subscribers, indicating either that I’m somehow doing something right or that I attract a lot of bots.
I’m also trying to find new social media buttons better than my current ones; the ones I use now are unobtrusive but blocked by ad-blockers, which probably means they’re adding unwelcome trackers.
The image at the top of this post is from 2004’s Uta Kata, a magical girl title I don’t happen to be familiar with; it’s the only one on this list I don’t recognize. I might have to see if I can find it.
